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A new anthology of insurgent poetry, just published in Britain, is being received with both appreciation and anger. The poems themselves show how the Taliban's public bravado and severe Islamic code are sometimes at odds with its fighters'...

The United States has taken custody of one of Osama bin Laden's top paramilitary trainers, the most senior member of Al Qaeda seized in the three-month war in Afghanistan, American officials said today. The capture marks a potential intelligence...

Pakistani officials said today that they had arrested the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, and that he was being questioned by Pakistani and American intelligence officials seeking information on the whereabouts of...

The Foreign Ministry confirmed today that it had received an application for political asylum from Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan who became the most visible face of the Taliban to the outside world, with the...

Surrounded by opposition forces and harried by weeks of American bombing, the Taliban agreed today to surrender the southern city of Kandahar, their last stronghold and the birthplace of their radical Islamic movement. But tonight negotiators had...

American warplanes bombed a compound southeast of Kandahar today that the Pentagon said was used by leaders of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Al Wafa, an Islamic foundation accused of terrorist activities. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld...

The Taliban's last diplomatic link with the outside world was closed today on orders from the Pakistani government, the only country that had still maintained ties with the Islamic militia. The white flag of the Taliban still flew over its walled...

Under pressure from the United States, Pakistan has told the Taliban ambassador here to stop using news conferences at the Afghan embassy to attack the United States for its bombing of Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said today. The instruction...

The head of the United Nations refugee agency called today for ''self-restraint'' by the United States and Britain to prevent civilian casualties in the bombing of Afghanistan. Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said...